One Breath Poem

Multi-iterative interactive project which collects and presents poems that fit in one breath.

On several iterations of One Breath Poem (OBP), we have used Processing to collect one breath poem recordings from participants and add them to our growing soundscape of poems. People could also listen to the soundscape. The Telephone Edition invited visitors to breathe on the tin can telephone and be showered (by a directional speaker) in sound, which varied according to the display.

The current version, Message for a Revolution, invites participants to call a number and contribute a one breath poem, and to hear poems left by others.

In collaboration with LabSynthE.
Several members of the lab and I have written about this project here.
Read Artist Statements here.

Participate in the current version of OBP here!

Exhibition History

Since July 2020 – call 1 (205) 551-8577 to listen & participate.
August 2020 – One Breath Poem: A Needful Message, School of Arts and Humanities, UT Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA.
August 2019 –  One Breath Poem: Telephone Edition, RE:SOUND Media Arts Histories (MAH), Aalborg, Denmark.
May 2019 – One Breath Poem: Telephone Edition, BEST Symposium, Frisco, TX, USA.
January 2019 – One Breath Poem: Telephone Edition, Grey Matter, A Ship in the Woods, Escondido, CA, USA.
October 2018 – One Breath Poem: Telephone Edition, ATEC Celebration, Dallas, TX, USA.
May 2018 – One Breath Poem: Sea Shanties Edition, Plano Art Fest, Plano, TX, USA.
May 2018 – One Breath Poem: Holocaust Remembrance Day Edition School of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication at UT Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA.